As an experiment, I bought an AIMS sine-wave inverter for the 105B
Quartz Oscillator. The inverter has a built-in transfer switch that is
supposed to allow the load to operate from the AC line and automatically
switch to battery/inverter should the AC power line fail.
In fact the thing seems to work—the output is a nice 118 VAC sine wave
measuring 60.189 ± 0.003 Hz and the transfer switch is fast enough that
the 105B doesn't seem to notice the change. The "AC Interruption" light
doesn't light and I don't see a flicker of the 5 MHz output on my scope.
Just for the fun of it, I connected a filament transformer and ran the
low voltage into my distortion analyzer. The result was about 5%
distortion for the inverter and 1.5% for the AC line. This got me to
wondering, we've discussed the AC power line frequency at length but not
other "qualities" of that "signal.' I was surprised that the AC line had
so much distortion but it's a subject I've never considered. Has anyone
in this group looked at this? [Yes, this is perilously close to not
being appropriate Time-Nuts discussion matter—sorry!]
Jeremy
Regards,
Jeremy
On 9/18/2016 4:33 AM, Scott McGrath wrote:
> That NiCad pack is part of the power supply and as Jeremy points out is part of the filter system. And so one needs to restore it as part of the instrument as even the 28V external power supply floats these cells and trips power interruption indicator if lost
>>>> Power supply is not terribly hard to fix and the small signal transistors can be replaced with 2N 2222,3904 and 3906'es depending on rating. You don't even need a extender a Huntron tracker or similar current limited lissajous bridge will identify failed or leaky caps and semiconductors
>> Remember HP did nothing without a good engineering reason and that plate is there for RF shielding to prevent stray sources coupling with the outputs
>> If a proper rebuild is too expensive I'd suggest selling it on the well known auction site rather than hacking it up as 105's have been selling in the hundreds regardless of condition
>>>> On Sep 17, 2016, at 10:16 PM, Jeremy Nichols <jn6wfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How did you come up with the 33,000 uF number, Perry, and is it one big capacitor or lots of little ones tied together? The big cap will also filter out some of the remaining ripple in the power supply that may have been managed by the ni-cad battery.
>>>> Jeremy
>>>>>>> On 9/17/2016 3:50 PM, Perry Sandeen via time-nuts wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> Where the nicad pack was located one can put in 33,000 uF of Nichicon 105C caps for $20 for a buffer hold over. <snip>
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